Boxee
Website: http://www.boxee.tv/
Contact Person: Andrew Kippen
Abstract: Boxee is a cross platform freeware home theater PC (HTPC) program with social networking features designed for the living-room TV. Boxee enables its users to view, rate and recommend content to their friends through many social networks services. Boxee media center software is being developed by Boxee Inc, which is financially backed by venture capital firms General Catalyst Partners together with Union Square Ventures and Spark Capital. (Read more at Wikipedia).
The idea for Boxee was born when founding friends Avner, Gidon, Idan, Tom, and Roee, came up with the idea for boxee in 2004 when they began using Xbox Media Center, open source software for the original Xbox that allowed people to play digital media on their TVs. They became members of XBMC’s open source community and in 2007 imagined a way to take the platform even further. Since 2007, Mr. Ronen and a team of 11 others have worked to extend the base code for XBMC with online sources like hulu and Netflix as well as social networking in boxee.
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Gal Mor and the Israeli internet industry go hand in hand from the very beginning. Gal was chief editor at ynet.co.il Computers Channel for five years and content manager on site. Gal is a now a strategic consultant for new media content and owner of the influencive blog: holesinthenet.co.il
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2010-03-19
19:33:32
[...] more about Boxee on TheWadi’s Israeli tech companies [...]
2010-03-31
10:55:42
[...] that allow you to turn their service into what you’ve always dreamed of for a media center (read more on TheWadi’s company [...]
2010-04-18
15:47:22
[...] looking for a lead iPad and iPhone developer for its New York office. More details here. Read about Boxee at The Wadi [...]
2010-04-26
16:54:32
[...] for a lead iPad and iPhone developer for its New York office. More details here. Read about Boxee at The Wadi [...]
2010-05-14
08:34:47
[...] the living-room TV. Boxee provides APIs that allow you to turn their service into a media center (read more on TheWadi’s company [...]
2010-10-11
13:10:30
[...] Boxee.tv - Offering a partially open-source freeware media player software platform and (soon) a set top box that integrate personal locally stored media with Internet streaming media along with social networking features. [...]
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